Earlier this week the European Policy Centre (with its partner the Vodafone Institute) published a new discussion paper looking at the strategic issues around European submarine cables and making some recommendations. Since it’s an area of work close to my heart I have reviewed and set out below – in no particular order – some
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Australian Clinical Labs ordered to pay AUD5.8 million following cyber incident
Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) has been ordered to pay AUD5.8 million for breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) following a 2022 cyber incident which impacted the personal information of over 223,000 individuals. This is the first ever civil penalty proceeding under the Privacy Act.
ACL was held to have breached three separate…
UK: It’s time to act – the UK National Cyber Security Centre’s wake-up call for business leaders
Visible cyber fallout is everywhere. Impact to business operations (and therefore revenue) including halted production lines, emptied supermarket shelves, online payment unavailability, and patient backlogs have all brought cyber into the media and the boardroom at an alarming rate in the last year. Last week, the NCSC’s Annual Review 2025[1] showed impact climbing fast…
UK: ICO v Clearview – a test of the ICO’s reach?
Summary
The Upper Tribunal (UT) has handed down its judgment in the UK Information Commissioner’s (Information Commissioner) appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision on Clearview AI Inc (Clearview). The UT upheld three of the Commissioner’s four grounds of appeal, concluding that:
- Clearview’s processing of personal information is related to monitoring of behaviour of UK
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The difficulty of bringing criminal cases for submarine cable damage – the Eagle S case
A recent decision from a Finnish district court has cast light on the legal and operational challenges surrounding damage to submarine infrastructure, particularly in contested or sensitive maritime zones. The case concerned the Eagle S, a Cook Islands-flagged oil tanker, whose crew faced criminal charges following an incident in the Gulf of Finland that left…
Italy passes its own law on artificial intelligence: new rules effective October 2025
During the session of September 17, 2025, the Italian Senate approved Bill No. 1146-B, entitled “Provisions and delegated powers to the Government regarding artificial intelligence.” The text was published on the Italian Official Journal as Law No. 132 of 2025 and is set to become applicable starting from October 10, 2025.
The new law (the…
Ready, set, regulate – Ireland’s new National AI Office and Competent Authorities
Ireland has marked a significant milestone in the implementation of the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, positioning itself at the forefront of responsible AI regulation in Europe. On 16 September 2025, the Department for of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment announced the designation of additional national competent authorities and a single central coordinating authority tasked…
Australia: Facial Recognition Technology Continues to Breach Australian Privacy Act
Three years after its investigation commenced, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has found that retail giant Kmart Australia Limited (Kmart) breached the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) through its use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in 28 retail stores between June 2020 and July 2022.
This determination marks the OAIC’s second…
CHINA: new stricter and 4-hour data breach reporting requirements for certain incidents
The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) has recently published the Administrative Measures for Network Security Incident Reporting (“Measures”), which provide further guidance on when and how to report network security incidents under existing laws such as the Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law. The Measures will take effective on…
Navigating the complex pathway to Modern Airline Retailing and Offer and Order Management
What is Offer and Order Management (OOM)?
For the airline industry there are certainly exciting times ahead. We are at the precipice of a profound ideological and technical transformation, seeing a shift from fragmented legacy systems, towards a modern airline retailing model that will operate closer to other traditional retailing models, with just one offer…